Joey Dunlop Quotes

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

The man who places a part does not fasten it. The man who puts in the bold does not out on the nut. The man who puts on the nut does not tighten it. Every piece of work in the shop moves. It may move on hooks, on overhead chains …. It may travel on a moving platform or go by gravity.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an automotive assembly line, or a jellybean factory, and I'm happy as a clam at high tide.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.

My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.

There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day, and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.

When I see a shoe, I deconstruct it in my head. It comes from spending childhood summers around my grandad's denim factory in Bury, watching the machinists turn fabric into clothes.

These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.